low carbon energy and engineering

spy plane photos shame heat-loss homes

A London borough used thermal imaging from the air to help identify properties with high heat loss and they’ve put the results online for anyone to see. Here’s the article in the The Times. And here’s the map showing the results.

I think it’s fantastic, provided the council follow it up with constructive advice to the worst homes and other buildings. Now what we need is a thermal version of Google Earth.

This whole project is the brainchild of a friend of Giles’. One of the people who were to invest in Econstruction, they are mapping specialists, and saw a potential niche. The real question is whether the information itself will have any real market value in pinpointing where to spend money. Presumably, it could be helpful to the utility companies target Energy Efficiency commitment monies etc.